Hyundai Venue Joins Select Band of Compact SUVs With 800,000 Sales

Hyundai Motor India’s first-ever compact SUV launched in May 2019 and followed by the second-gen model in November 2025 has driven past the 800,000 milestone in the domestic market. The only other compact SUVs with higher sales are the Maruti Brezza and the Tata Nexon.

By Ajit Dalvi

09 Jun 2026

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Hyundai Venue Joins Select Band of Compact SUVs With 800,000 Sales

The Venue, Hyundai Motor India’s first-ever compact SUV and the company’s second best-selling SUV after the Creta midsize SUV, has achieved the 800,000 wholesale milestone in the domestic market. In the seven years since market entry in May 2019 till end-May 2026, the Venue has accumulated total sales of 802,221 units in the domestic market. An additional 55,000-plus units have also been exported, which takes total Venue sales to over 850,000 units.

Only two other rivals – the game-changing Maruti Brezza, which kickstarted the compact SUV segment in March 2016, and the Tata Nexon, launched in September 2017 – have sold more than the Hyundai Venue. While the Brezza tops with 1.45 million units, the Tata Nexon has sold 1.07 million units to date.
The first-gen Venue raced past its first 50,000 sales in just six months after launch, 100,000 in 15 months, 200,000 in 25 months, and 250,000 in 30 months. The 300,000 milestone was surpassed in April 2023, 36 months after launch. While the run from 200,000 to 300,000 units and thereafter to 400,000 units took an identical 11 months each, the 500,000 — or half-a-million — milestone was surpassed in November 2023, 600,000 in October 2024, and 700,000 in early September 2025, just before the second-generation Venue was launched. The rollout of the new Venue was a sales booster, and the last 100,000 units have been sold in nine months (September 2025-May 2026).

FY2024 (128,897 units) was the Venue’s best fiscal year. The launch of the second-gen Venue in September 2025 has given a new charge, and the last 100,000 units have been sold in 9 months.

The Maruti Brezza with 1.45 million units is the highest-selling compact SUV in India, followed by the Tata Nexon (1.07 million units) and the old and new Hyundai Venue (802,221 units).

The Hyundai Venue’s domestic market sales numbers (see data table above) show that the best 12-month performance came in FY2024 with 128,897 units, growing 7% YoY on FY2023’s 120,653 units. FY2025, with 119,113 units, however, saw Venue sales decline 7% YoY, with the model ranked fifth in the Top 10 compact SUV listing that fiscal. The rate of decline slowed down YoY in FY2026 (117,737 units, down 1%), and that’s mainly due to the launch of the second-generation Venue in November 2025. Monthly sales in CY2026 to date (January-May 2026) have averaged 11,637 units compared to 9,429 units – a YoY increase of 23 per cent.

From its launch in May 2019 to May 2026, the Venue accounted for 36% of Hyundai Motor India’s 2.21 million UV sales. The Creta, the company’s best-selling model and India’s No. 1 midsize SUV, with 10,60,664 units has a 48% share of the UV sales in the same 86-month period.
Compared to the first-gen model, the new Venue is 48mm taller and 30mm wider. The wheelbase has also grown by 20mm, now measuring 2520mm.

New Venue: Premium Urban Compact SUV With Strong Growth Potential

The Hyundai Venue is part of the most hotly contested sub-segment of the UV market: compact SUVs. This segment is populated by some high-selling models like the Tata Punch and Nexon, Maruti Brezza and Fronx, Mahindra XUV 3XO, sibling Exter, Toyota Taisor, Kia Syros, and the Skoda Kylaq.

The second-gen Venue, which is the first Hyundai model to roll out from the company’s new 170,000 units-per-annum plant in Talegaon, Maharashtra, has the ammo to take on the many rivals. Compared to the first-gen model, the new Venue is 48mm taller and 30mm wider. The wheelbase has also grown by 20mm, now measuring 2520mm.

There are two petrol engines on offer: an 83hp, 1.2-litre naturally aspirated engine and a 120hp, 1.0-litre turbo-petrol engine (in the sportier Venue N Line). ARAI-certified mileage for the 1.2-litre petrol engine is 18.05kpl, while the turbo manual and DCT deliver better that, delivering 18.74kpl and 20kpl, respectively. The 1.5-litre diesel achieves 20.99kpl with the manual, albeit falls to 17.9kpl with the optional automatic.

Inside the cabin, the new Venue gets a curved display comprising two 12.3-inch screens (larger than even the Creta), a new steering wheel, a 360-degree camera and ventilated seats. On the safety front, the new Venue, which has a 5-star Bharat NCAP rating, gets six airbags (standard), disc brakes for all wheels, a tyre pressure monitoring system (TPMS), an electronic parking brake with auto hold, and a Level 2 ADAS suite. The Hyundai Venue’s price ranges between Rs 800,000 and Rs 15.65 lakh (ex-showroom), with 26 variants on offer. On April 20 this year, HMIL launched the Venue Knight Edition at Rs 970,000.

Demand for the new Venue continues to be strong. If the first two months of FY2027, with 24,134 units and robust 56% YoY growth (April-May 2025: 15,473 units), are any indication, then Hyundai Motor India could be looking at the Venue clocking its highest sales in a fiscal year in FY2027.

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